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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Taltos do to a child born of the mating between a Taltos and human that survives?
(a) Kill the child.
(b) Accept the child into the Taltos.
(c) Ignore the child and the human must care for it.
(d) Force the child to live among the Taltos but not accept it as a Taltos.

2. How many Taltos are alive after the battle with the villagers?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 18.
(d) 1.

3. What shocks Marklin about the body in the casket?
(a) It is Tessa.
(b) It is Stuart.
(c) It is mutilated.
(d) It is not human or Taltos.

4. What makes a coupling Taltos pair end the coupling?
(a) They hear a voice in their head.
(b) They fall asleep for days.
(c) Nothing in particular.
(d) The baby is ready to be born.

5. Why do the humans burn Janet at the stake?
(a) For cursing God.
(b) For being pregnant by a human.
(c) For not accepting Christianity.
(d) For killing a priest.

6. Where does Mary Jane suggest they go?
(a) Back to the Mayfair estate.
(b) To find Rowan.
(c) To find Ash.
(d) Fontevrault.

7. What is one thing the Taltos hated about their new home off the island?
(a) The cold winters.
(b) The smell of the human cities.
(c) The fighting among the humans.
(d) The noise of the human cities.

8. What does Marklin realize when he and Tommy are in a large room with other members?
(a) Marklin is being ignored.
(b) Tommy has disappeared.
(c) Nothing in particular.
(d) Marklin and Tommy are the only novices.

9. With whom does Ash leave the Taltos paradise?
(a) Just with one son.
(b) Just with his wife.
(c) He left by himself.
(d) Two of his daughers and three other Taltos.

10. What does Granny say usually happens to a walking baby?
(a) They are sent to a special school.
(b) They are worshipped.
(c) She has never heard of a walking baby.
(d) They are killed.

11. What happens in the storm?
(a) The water surges under the front door.
(b) The electricity goes off.
(c) Lightening hits a tree and starts a fire.
(d) A shutter flies loose and breaks a window.

12. Whose daughter did Rowan kill?
(a) Aaron's.
(b) Ash's.
(c) Yuri's.
(d) Her own.

13. What can hasten a human woman's pregnancy with a Taltos child?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Singing and reassuring the child.
(c) A certain herb.
(d) A witch performing an intricate ceremony.

14. What instructions does Mona give Mary Jane?
(a) What to do in case Morrigan and she die.
(b) What to say to Rowan.
(c) What to say to Ash.
(d) What to do in case Mona dies.

15. What does Marklin find when he uses Tommy's lighter?
(a) Strange, alien creatures.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Human bones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begins screaming?

2. What happens once when humans raided Taltos' village?

3. What does Mona ask Morrigan at the opening to Chapter Twenty?

4. How did the Taltos view monogamy?

5. What is Mary Jane carrying in her basket?

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